Collected Plays and Stories

CONTENTS

PLAYS

Act One	Act Two	Act Three	Act Four	Act Five
SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III SCENE IV	SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III SCENE IV	SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III SCENE IV SCENE V SCENE VI SCENE VII	SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III SCENE IV	SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III SCENE IV SCENE V SCENE VI SCENE VII

Rodogune

Act One	Act Two	Act Three	Act Four	Act Five
SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III	SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III SCENE IV SCENE V	SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III	SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III SCENE IV SCENE V	SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III SCENE IV

Perseus the Deliverer

Act One	Act Two	Act Three	Act Four	Act Five
SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III	SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III	SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III	SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III SCENE IV SCENE V	SCENE I SCENE II SCENE III

Eric

Act One

Act Two

Act Three

Act Four

Act Five

Act One

Act Two

Act Three

Act Four

Act Five

Incomplete and Fragmentary Plays

The Witch of Ilni

Act One

Act Two

Act Three

The House of Brut

Act twO

SCENE I

The Maid in the Mill

Act One				Act Two
SCENE I SCENE II SCENE Iii SCENE Iv SCENE v				SCENE I

The Prince of Edur

Act One

Act Two

Act Three

The Prince of Mathura

Act One

SCENE I

The Birth of Sin

Act ONE

Fragment of a Play

Act One

SCENE I

STORIES

Occult Idylls

The Phantom Hour

The Door at Abelard

Incomplete and Fragmentary Stories

The Birth of Sin

A Drama

LUCIFER, the Angel of Power.

SIRIOTH, the Angel of Love.

GABRIEL, the Angel of Obedience.

MICHAEL, the Angel of War.

RAPHAEL, the Angel of Sweetness.

THE ELOHIM.

BELIAL, the Angel of Reason.

BAAL, the Angel of Worldly Wisdom.

MOLOCH, the Angel of Wrath.

SUN.

ASHTAR, the Angel of Beauty.

MEROTH, the Angel of Youth.

Prologue

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Act I

LUCIFER

Master of light and glory, lift thy rays

Over the troubled flood; lift up thy rays.

Obey me.

SUN

Lucifer! who gave thee power

Over the gods that rule the ancient world?

Or why should I obey thee? Art thou God?

Hast thou dethroned the Omnipotent from Heaven

And cast Him down into His nether glooms,

Revolting? Gave He then His supreme command,

Speak as a servant then and minister,

Not with the accent that controls the stars.

LUCIFER

Who then compelled thee from thy bright repose,

Or wherefore hast thou come?

SUN

By Him compelled,

Before whose mandate tremble all the Gods.

LUCIFER

By His or mine? That I will see. Rise, Sun,

And from thy luminous majestic orb

Cast out into the azure hold of Space

Creative Energy and pregnant Fire

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Whirling around thee while the years endure.

SUN

Lucifer, Son of Morning, First in Heaven,

What madness seizes thee? What awful force

Darkly magnificent, brilliantly ominous

Looks out from eyes that own no more the calm?

LUCIFER

Obey!

SUN

I cannot choose. Power leaps from thee

Upon me. I am seized with fiery pangs.

Spare me, thou dreadful Angel. I obey.

Exit.

LUCIFER

Power, power to make and to unmake the world!

Power grows in me. I am omnipotent.

Children of immortality whose ranks

And brilliant armies people the infinite,

Creatures of wonder, creatures of desire,

O suns that wheel in everlasting fire,

O stars that sow the ethereal spaces thick,

O worlds of various life! I am your King.

This I have learnt that God and I are one.

If one, then equal! Rightly too I deemed

That God develops, God increases. I,

Younger than He am greater than the Power

From which I sprang; the new excels the old.

BELIAL

What dost thou, Lucifer, Angel of God?

The infinite spaces murmur like a sea,

The ethereal realms are rocked as with a wind,

All Nature stands amazed. Whence this revolt?

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Who gave thee force to overturn the world?

LUCIFER

Watch, Belial, watch with me. A crisis comes

In the infinite, mobile and progressive world.

For God shall cease and Lucifer be God.

BELIAL

Thou speakst a thing that madness only speaks.

If God be God, how can He change or cease?

LUCIFER

Watch, Belial! I will prove to thee the truth,

Thou reasonable Angel.

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